Diamond Sponsors
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is the global edge-to-cloud company that helps organisations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent technology solutions delivered as a service – spanning Compute, Storage, Software, Intelligent Edge, High Performance Computing and Mission Critical Solutions – with a consistent experience across all clouds and edges, designed to help customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance. For more information, please visit: www.hpe.com
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HPE Aruba Networking is a leading provider of agile, secure edge-to-cloud networking solutions. The business is a leader in providing networking solutions that empower organisations to enhance their connectivity and security. HPE Aruba Networking helps businesses modernise their networks and extract more value from data by using AI-based machine learning that delivers simpler, faster, and more automated networks. For more information, visit www.arubanetworks.com
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HP Inc. (NYSE:HPQ) is a global technology leader and creator of solutions that enable people to bring their ideas to life and connect to the things that matter most. Operating in more than 170 countries, HP delivers a wide range of innovative and sustainable devices, services and subscriptions for personal computing, printing, 3D printing, hybrid work, gaming, and more. For more information, please visit: www.HP.com
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Lenovo is a US$62 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #217 in the Fortune Global 500, employing 77,000 people around the world, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company by further expanding into growth areas that fuel the advancement of ‘New IT’ technologies (client, edge, cloud, network, and intelligence), including server, storage, mobile, software, solutions, and services. This transformation together with Lenovo’s world-changing innovation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992)(ADR: LNVGY). For more information, please visit https://lenovo.com
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Gold Sponsors
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Cisco (NASDAQ: new windowCSCO) is the worldwide technology leader that securely connects everything to make anything possible. Our purpose is to power an inclusive future for all by helping our customers reimagine their applications, power hybrid work, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals. For more information, please visit www.cisco.com
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Elastic, the leading search analytics company, enables everyone to securely harness search-powered AI to find the answers they need in real-time using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elasticsearch platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, combines the power of search with AI to help companies solve real-time business problems, unlock potential, and achieve better outcomes. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data – securing and protecting private information more effectively – Elastic’s complete, cloud-based, solutions for search, security, and observability help businesses deliver on the promise of AI. For more information, please visit www.elastic.co
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ExaGrid provides Tiered Backup Storage with a unique disk-cache Landing Zone, long-term retention repository, scale-out architecture, and comprehensive security features. ExaGrid’s Landing Zone provides for the fastest backups, restores, and instant VM recoveries. The Repository Tier offers the lowest cost for long-term retention. ExaGrid’s scale-out architecture includes full appliances and ensures a fixed-length backup window as data grows, eliminating expensive forklift upgrades and planned product obsolescence. ExaGrid offers the only two-tiered backup storage approach with a non-network-facing tier (tiered air gap), delayed deletes, and immutable objects to recover from ransomware attacks. For more information, please visit www.exagrid.com
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Hitachi Vantara is transforming the way data fuels innovation. A wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Vantara provides the data foundation the world's leading innovators rely on. Through data storage, infrastructure systems, cloud management and digital expertise, the company helps customers build the foundation for sustainable business growth. For more information, please visit www.hitachivantara.com
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Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With over 207,000 employees and operations in over 170 countries and regions, Huawei serves more than three billion people around the world. Huawei is committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organisation for a fully connected, intelligent world. For more information, please visit www.huawei.com
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OpenText can help you tackle the most complex digital transformation programmes with confidence. With the world’s most complete and integrated Information Management platform, we empower our customers to organise, integrate and protect data and content as it flows through business processes inside and outside their organisation. For more information, please visit www.opentext.com
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Scale Computing is a leader in edge computing, virtualisation, and hyperconverged solutions. Using patented HyperCore™ technology, Scale Computing Platform automatically identifies, mitigates, and corrects infrastructure problems in real-time, enabling applications to achieve maximum uptime, even when local IT resources and staff are scarce. Edge Computing is the fastest-growing area of IT infrastructure, and industry analysts have named Scale Computing an outperformer and leader in the space, including being named the #1 edge computing vendor by CRN. When ease-of-use, high availability, and TCO matter, Scale Computing Platform is the ideal infrastructure platform. For more information, please visit www.scalecomputing.com
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Teraco, a leading carrier-neutral colocation provider in Africa, is the first provider of highly resilient, vendor-neutral data environments in sub-Saharan Africa. With its world-class data centre infrastructure and network-dense ecosystems, Teraco forms a vital part of the African Internet’s backbone and is essential to the modern enterprise’s digital transformation strategy. Teraco is majority-owned by Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) – offering customers a global data centre platform designed to enable digital businesses to scale within a highly connected data community across 300+ data centres in 50+ metros and 25+ countries on six continents – together with a continuing interest maintained by a consortium of private equity investors, including Berkshire Partners LLC and Permira. For more information, please visit www.teraco.co.za
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Silver Sponsors
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IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalise on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. More than 4,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service. For more information, please visit www.ibm.com
Axiz is a leading technology solutions distributor and channel partner based in South Africa, offering a comprehensive portfolio of cutting-edge IT products and services. With a commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer satisfaction, Axiz has established itself as a trusted partner for vendors, channel partners, and end customers. For more information, please visit www.axiz.com |
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Infoblox unites networking and security to deliver unmatched performance and protection. Trusted by Fortune 100 companies and emerging innovators, we provide real-time visibility and control over who and what connects to your network, so your organisation runs faster and stops threats earlier. For more information, please visit www.infoblox.com
Axiz is a leading technology solutions distributor and channel partner based in South Africa, offering a comprehensive portfolio of cutting-edge IT products and services. With a commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer satisfaction, Axiz has established itself as a trusted partner for vendors, channel partners, and end customers. For more information, please visit www.axiz.com |
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Cybereason is the leader in future-ready attack protection, partnering with Defenders to end attacks at the endpoint, in the cloud, and across the entire enterprise ecosystem. Only the AI-driven Cybereason Defence Platform provides predictive prevention, detection, and response that is undefeated against modern ransomware and advanced attack techniques. The Cybereason MalOp™ instantly delivers context-rich attack intelligence across every affected device, user, and system with unparalleled speed and accuracy. Cybereason turns threat data into actionable decisions at the speed of business. Cybereason is a privately held international company headquartered in La Jolla, San Diego with customers in more than 40 countries. For more information, please visit www.cybereason.com
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Dell Technologies helps organisations and individuals build their digital future and transform how they work, live, and play. With the industry’s broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio for the data era , Dell Technologies is a catalyst to accelerate from ideas to innovation. We provide cutting-edge solutions across AI, GenAI, Modern Data Centre, Modern Workplace, Multicloud and Edge. We embed Sustainability and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) throughout our value chain and technology stack. With the aim to bring everyone access to the benefits of technology and advance the circular economy, we engage our supply chain to drive emissions reductions, use innovative materials and takeback programs. For more information, please visit www.dell.com
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Exclusive Networks is a global trusted cybersecurity specialist for digital infrastructure helping to drive the transition to a totally trusted digital future for all people and organisations. Our distinctive approach to distribution gives partners more opportunity and more customer relevance. Our specialism is their strength – equipping them to capitalise on rapidly evolving technologies and transformative business models. With offices in 46 countries and the ability to service customers in over 170 countries across five continents, Exclusive Networks has a unique ‘local sale, global scale’ model, combining the extreme focus and value of local independents with the scale and service delivery of a single worldwide distribution powerhouse. Exclusive Networks is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange (Ticker: EXN). For more information, please visit www.exclusive-networks.com
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Founded in 1999, GRGBanking is a leading public high-tech enterprise in China, specialising in FinTech and Smart City solutions. As a pioneer in digital transformation, GRGBanking invests over 10% of its revenue in R&D, consistently innovating to meet customer needs. With more than 350,000 terminals and solutions deployed worldwide, GRGBanking provides customised, high-quality AI-driven solutions and 24/7 support, empowering industries to achieve digitalisation and transformation. GRGBanking is one of the top three self-service terminal providers in the banking industry, with a global presence in more than 120 countries and regions. For more information, please visit https://global.grgbanking.com/
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A six-time Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ leader, Infinidat has an established history of innovation and proven execution. The company delivers an outstanding portfolio of best-in-class, storage based solutions for enterprises and service providers seeking the best in primary storage, modern data protection, DR/BC, and cyber storage resilience. InfiniSafe® technology provides comprehensive cyber storage resilience capabilities across the portfolio and Infinidat solutions are backed by the industry’s strongest guarantees for availability, performance, and cyber storage resilience. Traditional and cloud-like consumption-based procurement models provide the most flexible options to meet the CapEx and OpEx requirements of businesses today. Infinidat is the Standard in Enterprise Storage. For more information, please visit www.infinidat.com/en
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ITR Technology has been the sole distributers of ManageEngine software in South Africa for over two decades. ManageEngine is the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corporation and offers real-time IT management tools ensure optimal performance of IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, applications, desktops and more. With certified support engineers, a dedicated sales team and a ManageEngine training centre, ITR Technology values making a difference in the lives of South African IT professionals. For more information, please visit https://www.manageengine.com/za/
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Riverbed, the leader in AI observability, helps organisations optimise their user’s experiences by leveraging AI automation for the prevention, identification, and resolution of IT issues. With over 20 years of experience in data collection and AI and machine learning, Riverbed’s open and AI-powered observability platform and solutions optimise digital experiences and greatly improves IT efficiency. Riverbed also offers industry-leading acceleration solutions that provide fast, agile, secure acceleration of any app, over any network, to users anywhere. Together with our thousands of market-leading customers globally – including 95% of the FORTUNE 100 – we are empowering next-generation digital experiences. For more information, please visit www.riverbed.com
First Distribution is a value-added distributor of leading global brands, providing complex ICT solutions to the enterprise and SME markets, focused around the cyber security, data centre, virtualisation, hosted applications and cloud-based services, database and middleware, security and network infrastructure, backed up by unparalleled expertise. As South Africa's leading distributor for data centre, enterprise and cloud solutions, First Distribution's model is based on delivering solutions through a well-established reseller base. This stable base has been built up through a history of consistent, trustworthy service and nurturing resellers as business partners. For more information, please visit www.firstdistribution.com |
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Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK) is on a mission to secure the world’s data. With Zero Trust Data Security™, we help organisations achieve business resilience against cyberattacks, malicious insiders, and operational disruptions. Rubrik Security Cloud, powered by machine learning, secures data across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS applications. We help organisations uphold data integrity, deliver data availability that withstands adverse conditions, continuously monitor data risks and threats, and restore businesses with their data when infrastructure is attacked. For more information, please visit www.rubrik.com
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Samsung is a global leader in technology and consumer electronics, renowned for its diverse range of products, including smartphones, televisions, home appliances, and semiconductor solutions. Founded in 1938 in South Korea, Samsung has evolved into a major player in the tech industry, known for its innovation and cutting-edge design. The company's commitment to research and development drives advancements in areas like display technology and artificial intelligence. Samsung also emphasises sustainability and corporate responsibility, aiming to reduce its environmental impact. With a strong presence in markets worldwide, Samsung continues to shape the future of technology through its extensive product offerings and services. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com
Established in 1987, Mustek is a leading technology company based in South Africa that specialises in the distribution of computer hardware and software products. The company is known for its extensive range of offerings, including laptops, desktops, printers, and peripherals, catering to both consumer and business markets, and provides value-added services, such as technical support and training, enhancing customer experience. With a strong commitment to quality and innovation, Mustek has established partnerships with major global brands, positioning itself as a key player in the South African IT sector. Its dedication to service and product excellence drives ongoing growth and success. For more information, please visit www.mustek.co.za |
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Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Fuelled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend Micro's AI-powered cybersecurity platform protects hundreds of thousands of organisations and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints. As a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, Trend's platform delivers a powerful range of advanced threat defence techniques optimised for environments like AWS, Microsoft, and Google, and central visibility for better, faster detection and response. With 7,000 employees across 70 countries, Trend Micro enables organisations to simplify and secure their connected world. www.TrendMicro.com
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Veritas Technologies is a leader in multi-cloud data management. Over 80,000 customers –
including 95% of the Fortune 100 – rely on us to help ensure the protection, recoverability, and compliance of their data. We have a reputation for reliability at scale, which delivers the resilience our customers need against the disruptions threatened by cyberattacks, like ransomware. No other vendor is able to match our ability to execute, with support for 800+ data sources, 100+ operating systems, 1,400+ storage targets, and 60+ clouds. Veritas has helped guide enterprise customers through every disruptive technology shift of the past 30 years. Our integrated approach to data management and protection is proven to deliver unmatched versatility, performance, and cost savings across environments. For more information, please visit www.veritas.com |
Display Sponsors
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BeyondTrust is the global cybersecurity leader protecting paths to privilege. Our identity-centric approach goes beyond securing privileges and access, empowering organisations with the most effective solution to manage the entire identity attack surface and neutralise threats, whether from external attacks or insiders. BeyondTrust is leading the charge in transforming identity security to prevent breaches and limit the blast radius of attacks, while creating a superior customer experience and operational efficiencies. We are trusted by 20,000 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 100, and our global ecosystem of partners. For more information, please visit www.beyondtrust.com
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With over 16 years of specialisation in distributing cutting-edge IT products across Africa, DataGroupIT stands as a leading Value Added Distributor (VAD) for major vendors including Darktrace, Quest, Imperva, and more. Our comprehensive solutions span cybersecurity, data management, and IT infrastructure, tailored to meet the diverse needs of businesses across 15+ African countries. Partnered with 200+ local resellers, channels, and sub-contractors, DataGroupIT facilitates seamless access to advanced technologies and unparalleled support services continent-wide. We excel in centralising sales, presale consultations, and financial transactions, ensuring efficiency and reliability in every interaction. Driven by a commitment to innovation and customer success, DataGroupIT employs a team of certified experts dedicated to delivering superior technical support and strategic guidance. Our "Vendor Like" approach fosters strong partnerships, providing significant advantages for vendors and partners alike in navigating and thriving within the African IT market. For more information, please visit https://datagroupit.com/
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VMware by Broadcom is a leading provider of multi-cloud services for all apps, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control. As a trusted foundation to accelerate innovation, VMware software gives businesses the flexibility and choice they need to build the future. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is committed to building a better future through the company’s 2030 Agenda. For more information, please visit www.vmware.com
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Since 2003, Mimecast has stopped bad things from happening to good organisations by enabling them to work protected. We empower more than 40,000 customers to help mitigate risk and manage complexities across a threat landscape driven by malicious cyberattacks, human error, and technology fallibility. Our advanced solutions provide the proactive threat detection, brand protection, awareness training, and data retention capabilities that evolving workplaces need today. Mimecast solutions are designed to transform email and collaboration security into the eyes and ears of organisations worldwide. For more information on Mimecast’s best-in-class advanced email and collaboration security offerings, please visit www.mimecast.com
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Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software, offering organisations a single platform for running apps and data across clouds. With Nutanix, companies can reduce complexity and simplify operations, freeing them to focus on their business outcomes. Building on its legacy as the pioneer of hyperconverged infrastructure, Nutanix is trusted by companies worldwide to power hybrid multicloud environments consistently, simply, and cost effectively. For more information, please visit www.nutanix.com
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OutSystems is a global leader transforming how companies innovate through software, empowering IT leaders with a better way to build the software that matters most. The OutSystems platform helps companies develop, deploy, and maintain mission-critical applications by unifying and automating the entire software lifecycle. With OutSystems, organisations leverage GenAI to deliver software instantaneously, adapt faster to changing requirements, and reduce technical debt by building on a future-proof platform. Helping customers achieve their business goals by addressing key strategic initiatives, OutSystems delivers software up to 10x faster than traditional development. Recognised as a leader by analysts, IT executives, business leaders, and developers around the world, global brands trust OutSystems to tackle their impossible projects and turn their big ideas into software that moves their business, people, and the world forward. www.outsystems.com
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Palo Alto Networks is the world's cybersecurity leader. We innovate to outpace cyberthreats, so organisations can embrace technology with confidence. We provide next-gen cybersecurity to thousands of customers globally, across all sectors. Our best-in-class cybersecurity platforms and services are backed by industry-leading threat intelligence and strengthened by state-of-the-art automation. Whether deploying our products to enable the Zero Trust Enterprise, responding to a security incident, or partnering to deliver better security outcomes through a world-class partner ecosystem, we're committed to helping ensure each day is safer than the one before. It's what makes us the cybersecurity partner of choice. At Palo Alto Networks, we're committed to bringing together the very best people in service of our mission, so we're also proud to be the cybersecurity workplace of choice, recognised among Newsweek's Most Loved Workplaces (2021-2024), with a score of 100 on the Disability Equality Index (2024, 2023, 2022), and HRC Best Places for LGBTQ Equality (2022). For more information, please visit www.paloaltonetworks.com
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Red Hat delivers hardened, open source solutions that make it easier for enterprises to work across platforms and environments, from the core data centre to the network edge. By operating transparently and responsibly, we continue to be a catalyst in open source communities, helping you build flexible, powerful IT infrastructure solutions. For more information, please visit www.redhat.com
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Schneider's purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On. Our mission is to be your digital partner for Sustainability and Efficiency. We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, end-point to cloud connecting products, controls, software and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centres, infrastructure and industries. We are the most local of global companies. We are advocates of open standards and partnership ecosystems that are passionate about our shared meaningful purpose, inclusive and empowered values. For more information, please visit www.se.com
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Veeam®, the #1 global market leader in data protection and ransomware recovery, is on a mission to empower every organisation to not just bounce back from a data outage or loss but bounce forward. With Veeam, organisations achieve radical resilience through data security, data recovery, and data freedom for their hybrid cloud. The Veeam Data Platform delivers a single solution for cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments that gives IT and security leaders peace of mind that their apps and data are protected and always available. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000 customers worldwide, including 73% of the Global 2000, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Radical resilience starts with Veeam. For more information, please visit www.veeam.com
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